i have officially done my first drawing since handing in for assessment. i'm that lazy. it's alright but once again doesn't quite look like the picture i copied... nevermind.
our rubbish landlord appeared today and started cutting the jungle (front garden). he's not supposed to come on/in the property without giving us 24 hours notice and he didn't even bother to knock on the door and say 'hello, i'm going to cut the grass for the first time in 2 years even though in the contract it's legally my responsibility to look after it and your rent will include that.' so we spent between 12 and 4 (yes thats how long it took him, it's not that big a garden, he just disappeared a lot) worrying about wills bike that is very close to the strimmering action and the fact that i had the day before run out of hayfever tablets. fun.
now all the grass is dead from shock and the old bat down the way stopped to stare at it and whinge to her old man friend about how it looks so dry. i almost shouted out at her that it was dear ol' mr.landlords fault because she thinks he's brilliant and that we're scum but i didn't, i just ignored her very politely even though she was staring at my garden and talking loudly about it next to my open window and continued making my mushroomy dinner. which was really yummy.
also recently i painted on a bag. i think it looks quite spiffy.
will's at work again and i'm all alone hence me being on here again and i'm also on last fm again which is quite awesome. last.fm that is, not that will is at work and i'm all alone.
gonna go watch kurt russell on graham norton now which i assume can only be good.

thought i could relax now...

i thought that once i had handed in all my work there'd be a massive weight lifted from me and i could relax. but i was obviously wrong. we're in the process of being checked for the house which is oddly worrying. i'm trying to sort stuff out for the degree show and i realise i haven't scanned anything at website resolution so that has to wait till the weekend when i've picked up all the work or anyone looking at my website would have to wait a year for anything to load. i tried printing out my portfolio pieces but even though the paper we found in london yesterday is quite dream like the printer is now refusing to print without borders even though it usually does it without me even asking. rubbish.

so i have had my miniature bottle of rose that i brought today to see whether i actually liked wine that isn't red and i've got the 'rob zombie' station on at last fm to try and calm myself with alcohol and industrial music before will comes home from work and has to put up with me.

oh my god. i just have to trim stuff and label everything and i'm done. a whole day early! will must hate me lol.

i love twitter : http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/05/highspeed_gallery/2/
the surfer shot is actually beautiful.
and i love twitter because that is where i got the link, courtesy of stephen fry.

i feel excited, which is odd because all the things i think of that are probably making me feel excited are all things that are actually quite scary. like finishing uni, handing in all this work, having my first exhibition. scary.

the end is nigh

having a rest from sewing coz it made my fingers go weird. but i'm good because my rest was to type up rationales, evaluations and try out my text on the postcards i have finished. here's one of the finished ones.

i'll put the others up once i'm done.
off to have dinner and finish the sewing hopefully tonight so i have 2 days to make everything look presentable.
and to the man that is bashing away in his garden: shut up!!!! i don't know what your hitting so hard but it sounds like you're trying to knock down our house and it woke me up far too early this morning!!! as if we don't have enough to stress about!

some stuff

this is my hair being awesome a couple weeks ago, i slept with it up and this is how it turned out. naturally my hair is straight as an ironing board. people are often jealous of my hair because i don't even blow dry it while they spend hours burning it straight. but i wish my hair would look like this more often without me doing anything to it. didn't last the whole day because it hates to be anything but dead straight but it was good while it lasted.

the other day i was on my way to uni and walking through the galleria and a man was walking towards me. i started to walk diagonally to move out of his way but he was still coming towards me so i kept trying to get out of his way figuring he was trying to get into the shop i was walking past and when we got level i realised he was looking right at me and he got really close and made a weird noise in my ear and kept walking. after a couple more steps the cringe started to wear off and i really wished i'd swung for him. i cringed so bad it actually made the side of my face feel weird. creep.

we went to view a flat today. crossing your fingers works. it was magically huge inside and we have now had it taken off the market! now i'm crossing my fingers for all the paperwork to go smoothly because it's technically still not ours just yet. please please please let it go well. it's a really nice little place on a private road really close to a lovely pub and the train station and it has a dining table. i'm fed up with eating dinner off my lap every day. *fingers crossed*

finished all the imagery for the showcase project. now its being rubbish and not printing well. all the colours are rubbish. i hate scanning and printing. i should have done fine art then i wouldn't have to print my work. but i would be thoroughly annoyed by all the arty crap that doesn't actually make sense. urgh. i just want it to look nice for my show!

will and i were walking across the field on the way home from tesco when we saw this and it made us laugh.
some art:

off to find some dinner now. i reckon it'll have to be nuggets and chips. we really need to go do a proper food shop...

www.beckygarratt.com

everything is mental. 2 weeks left before assessment. 3 weeks before the degree show. quite scared and excited. hope my show turns out good.
i now have a proper real website. its still 'under construction' but i'm slowly figuring out how it works.

i've been scanning in stuff i want to show off on it and when going through some stuff found some photos that i actually did with film and devoloped myself. for a first attempt i think they're quite good. especially considering we only had 30mins to use a whole roll of film and only had the ugly university as a subject.


final thought: why is there always someone that thinks 'fancy dress' means 'look as much like a slag as possible'? strange.